Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong  | Mit Pr

80,350원  | 20081031  | 9780262533065

Leila Sebbar's novel recounts an event in French history that has been hidden for many years. Mildred Mortimer's impressive translation conveys the power of Sebbar's words in English and allows English-speaking readers an opportunity to understand the complex relationship between past and present, metropole and colony, immigrant and citizen, that lies at the heart of this acclaimed novel.

Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong  | MIT

0원  | 99991230  | 9780262033329

How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myths of the Internet as total freedom/total control, she says, stem from our reduction of political problems into technological ones. Drawing on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault and analyzing such phenomena as Webcams and face-recognition technology, Chun argues that the relationship between control and freedom in networked contact is experienced and negotiated through sexuality and race. She traces the desire for cyberspace to cyberpunk fiction and maps the transformation of public/private into open/closed. Analyzing "pornocracy," she contends that it was through cyberporn and the government's attempts to regulate it that the Internet became a marketplace of ideas and commodities. Chun describes the way Internet promoters conflated technological empowerment with racial empowerment and, through close examinations of William Gibson's Neuromancerand Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell, she analyzes the management of interactivity in narratives of cyberspace. The Internet's potential for democracy stems not from illusory promises of individual empowerment, Chun argues, but rather from the ways in which it exposes us to others (and to other machines) in ways we cannot control. Using fiber optic networks -- light coursing through glass tubes -- as metaphor and reality, Control and Freedomengages the rich philosophical tradition of light as a figure for knowledge, clarification, surveillance, and discipline, in order to argue that fiber-optic networks physically instantiate, and thus shatter, enlightenment.

Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong (EDT)/ Keenan, Thomas (EDT)  | Routledge

119,670원  | 20210101  | 9780415942249

An anthology of original and classic essays explores the tensions of old and new in digital culture. This is a foundational text for general readers, students, and scholars of new media across the disciplines. It is useful reading for anyone interested in understanding the cultural impact of new media.

Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong (EDT)/ Keenan, Thomas (EDT)  | Routledge

0원  | 20051130  | 9780415942232